BioJim Fall has had a diversified directing career spanning theater, TV, and motion pictures. Jim's feature film career started with the acclaimed independent feature Trick which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival in Dramatic Competition. It was quickly acquired by Fine Line Features and released in the summer of 1999 becoming Fine Line's highest-grossing film of that year. Jim's studio directing debut, The Lizzie McGuire Movie - a big-screen adaptation of the hit Disney Channel series starring Teen Queen Hilary Duff - was a big box office success for Disney, opening at number two below “X-men 2” its opening week.
His TV credits include episodes of So NoTORIous, VH1's scripted comedy starring Tori Spelling and Zachary Quinto, and Grosse Pointe, the Darren Star-produced comedy series that has become a cult favorite. Jim also directed the A&E feature Wedding Wars, starring John Stamos and James Brolin, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. He recently directed and co-wrote Holiday Engagement (Hallmark's highest rated Sunday night movie), starring Shelley Long, Bonnie Somerville, and Jordan Bridges, and Holly's Holiday (Lifetime) starring Claire Coffee and Ryan McPartlin, and Kristin’s Christmas Past (Lifetime) starring Shiri Appleby, Elizabeth Mitchell. All three Christmas films were shown in rotation on TV these past eight Christmas seasons. In theater, Jim recently directed the world premieres of Howard Slora's comedies Damaged Furniture and Miserable With An Ocean View at the Whitefire Theater, Primal Scream, The Musical, music by David Foster, book and lyrics by Arthur Janov, at the Smother's Theater, Pepperdine University, and Mark Saltzman’s musical about Lorenz Hart Falling For Make Believe at the Colony Theater. Also The Ringer, by Minnesota Plates at the first annual Sci-Fest One act play festival. David Dean Bottrell's sold-out runs of David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One Man Show and David Dean Bottrell is Working, John Cantwell's Connie Loves Juice, Desperately Seeking Vicki, and Fade To Connie, Richard Tanner's Small Parts, and at the Bootleg Theater, the world premiere of Gary Lennon's The Interlopers. At the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Jim staged Clinton Leupp's Miss Coco Peru's Universe and Miss Coco Peru's Glorious Wounds...She's Damaged at the Renberg Theater (GLAAD Award Nomination). Jim attended Temple University, followed by NYU's film school and also received a film scholarship from The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. 
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